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how many eps is this? i hope its not 12, all the good series are getting 12 eps instead of 24

eg. mayo chiki

Unfortunately, at the start of the season this said 12. Even now it says 12 so it is just about final. (sometimes at the start of the season those tv listings aren't final, but I say from experience that site has never let me down.)

Speaking of 12 episodes. Am I correct if I say that they make a manga into an anime ( usually 12 episodes only) to use it as a promotional, I mean, advertisement to make it more sales in the manga version?

The show will indeed be 12 episodes, which was confirmed by the Blu-Ray solicitations. Of course that doesn't preclude OVAs or future seasons.

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Originally Posted by genjichan

Speaking of 12 episodes. Am I correct if I say that they make a manga into an anime ( usually 12 episodes only) to use it as a promotional, I mean, advertisement to make it more sales in the manga version.

Well, they typically call this sort of project "media mix". They use the anime to drum up attention for the entire franchise and support it with releases across as many different kinds of media possible: novels, manga, music CDs, DVDs/Blu-Rays, figures, console games, and so on. The companies that fund the anime are the very same as the ones selling these various goods. A show like this is likely to get decent sales across all the various media, but some other shows are more weighted to one form of a media or another. But it's certainly true that just because an anime doesn't sell well on DVD/Blu-Ray doesn't mean it's a failure -- they have to consider the franchise on the whole as part of the Return On Investment calculation. Some shows do indeed result primarily in an increase in novel or manga sales (or increased circulation for the magazines that run it), and that's certainly good for the producers as well. A show getting selected for an anime can be seen as a way of separating the wheat from the chaff, so it helps people choose what franchises to pay attention to in an otherwise crowded market.

Speaking of 12 episodes. Am I correct if I say that they make a manga into an anime ( usually 12 episodes only) to use it as a promotional, I mean, advertisement to make it more sales in the manga version?

By the way I guess it'll be twelve.

It's originally a Light Novel that has a very successful sale even before the Anime, very much comparable to the likes of Index, Baka-Test and OreImo.

The reason why these shows are 1 cours is because you don't see alot of RomCom stories hitting double digits in volumes.

In other words, not enough material.

But more importantly RomCom stories aren't usually 2 cour material because they tend to drag on.

How many volumes of the Light Novel does the anime cover? How much content would you say the anime has cut out (like a rough percentage)?

It covers up to the beginning of vol. 4. It cuts out a few chapters of vol. 1 (Momotarou and Cell Phone Novel). Out of volume 2, it cuts out the trio telling jokes, Romance of Three Kingdoms, Kodaka telling Maria his "jokes", Short Story Relay. It didn't cut much from volume 3 or the couple of chapters from volume 4. I'd say a little less than half of volume 2 got cut out, and very little of volume 1 got cut out. Half the show was volume 1 & 2, and the other half was pretty much volume 3.

Hope this helps! I didn't read the earlier volumes of the novels, but I read the manga so I hope I didn't mess up.

EDIT: For anyone who's curious, here's how the anime covered the novels.

The skipped chapters made Yukimura and Maria's less contribute by the way.

And some of details were also changed or cut, mostly Kodaka's inner thought/narration about trivial things so it didn't really important.
Like on the episode 2, on the end of the galgame part, Kodaka actually tried to play the game Sena gave. Though he didn't go to any girls route, he always go to any event with Masaru (or whatever the name of Semoponume/main character's close friend), he got bad ending but he felt satisfy XD

I wanted to know which parts of the novel the manga covers; i watched the anime, and can say it pretty much is identical to the manga(i'm currently reading volume5, when they are going all together to the swimming pool) up to vol5.

But after i finish reading the chapters of the manga(Itachi's one) that cover the story shown in the anime (and as far as i could see, it would mean the first 3-4 volumes of the novel), how much far will it go? Does it cover the story that comes after? How much of the novel does it cover? Are there any important differences between the novel and the manga, or they are just alike(perhaps the manga cutting some part) ? If it doesn't fully cover the novel, from where should i start reading the novel, after i finish the manga? Try not to spoil anything

from what ive seen the manga is covering all of the novel, but changing the order of the events so no big thing, but the anime didt adapted a couple of things, like the relay novel and the story of momotaro, that if you read the manga, are already adapted, though in some of the last episodes of the anime they mention the acting wich should be the momotaro part, so maybe those parts will appear as the extra episodes en the DVD/BDs.